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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: moments of wonder both here and out there    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2       Last Post   Posted:   Nov 13, 2024 - 12:35 PM     By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member) Lots of furtive glances and zooms and cuts as Gillian (Amy Irving) acts doped in the kitchen and Williams slowly broods. Then a crash and a flurry and it's just music and images. No dialogue...No sound FX. A director trusting his film crew, actors, editor AND COMPOSER. And off they run...out of the house...up the alley... into the street. Euphoria in Music. Then... The bad guys...the dark chords...the sequence unraveling. The crash...the jogger...the bullet chords!! The aftermath and tragedy. The greatest silent music ever written. Take a bow everyone. Dynamite scene and giving music the stage, Mr. De Palma.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2024 - 6:15 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) That is a terrific description, isn't it, Nic?! The kind of build-up that brings attention to the music while elevating the picture. Best of both worlds. Some examples cited are of a more intimate nature. Another of that kind is when Thompson is sitting in the dark, sinister library chamber and thumbing through the diary while the flute and muted trumpet are "tick-tocking" away; he reads, I first encountered Mr. Kane in 1871. and then time flashes back to a child's "triumphant" winter wonderland unleashed with a full Rosebudian orchestral burst. The power in those moments is magnificent...but only for a few moments. Makes you wish it would go on.    Posted:   Nov 16, 2024 - 7:00 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Lassie Come Home--river crossing: the dog contemplates, enters the water tentatively and begins its journey, winding through the arboreal obstacle course in daylight-obstructed gloom...and finally makes it out into the open sunshine as the music rises...the struggle, the struggle to keep going as the music keeps rising, abetted by the addition of wordless chorus, and finally...land! triumph!! But now exhaustion and a new challenge, must climb the hill...music regroups, shifts and weighs into an accelerated rising passage as it and the dog struggle to ascend, ascend until finally...the summit is reached. Dog collapses. It has outdone itself. And so has Amfitheatrof.    Posted:   Nov 17, 2024 - 2:51 PM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - Main Titles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh8P4MIaZBA&t=50s My dad, the great SF fan that he was, had always spoken to me n' big bro about this film, which he'd seen when he was in his early 20s. I heard the music for the first time before I saw the film (I think) - on one of the the Herrmann Phase 4 LPs. Then I eventually managed to see the film on TV, mid 1970s, and my spine tingled during the Main Titles. The images of outer space, the galaxies, then the planets of our solar system, then Earth. Wonderful, spellbinding. It almost makes me want to cry.    Posted:   Nov 17, 2024 - 6:29 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) And for a serendipitous companion piece to your rhapsodic reply, saw restored Invaders From Mars last night on TCM and the look on the kid’s face at flick’s end followed by otherworldly chorus to closeout never ceases to do me in. And create a dazzling and difficult to extricate eye- and earworm. Horner's score to Trumbull's glimpse of Heaven in "Brainstorm"? great choice Thanks to these replies, I picked up the remastered DVD at the library and tonight gave it the full rewatch. Saw it at the cinema when it came out and maybe once on videocassette who knows how long ago. Trumbull and Horner indeed combined for a glorious opening and climax.    Posted:   Nov 18, 2024 - 1:53 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Another seminal moment of this kind - in fact one that helped shape my entire interest in film music to begin with - is "Bud on the Ledge" from THE ABYSS. Starts off stark, and with defeat as Bud is about to drown on the ledge. Zithering synths, dark heartbeats. Then cautious, tentative, magic, high-register chorus as the alien appears. And then, of course, BOOM! as they swim over the ridge and into the underwater city. Religious, aweinspiring, with basically two minor-mode chords with tutti orchestra and choir, descending, as if to not only connote the majesty of the visuals, but the DEPTH of the place (the big, downwards leap from the first to the second chord).     General Discussion: moments of wonder both here and out there    << < 1 2  >   Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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